Climate Change
Virginia Once Drained and Dried Peatlands, but Now Eyes Them as Carbon Sinks
The bogs, logged for centuries and recently burned, sequester far more carbon than forests. Now, thousands of acres are being “rewetted” as part of a restoration strategy.
Fred Wurster’s favorite time to walk through the Great Dismal Swamp is at dusk. Pushing through thick vegetation and swatting away mosquitoes, he gets to a section of this 113,000-acre national wildlife refuge that was repeatedly burned by fires.
Virginia Once Drained and Dried Peatlands, but Now Eyes Them as Carbon Sinks